"Today it would be hard to find a reader of poetry who would not acknowledge William Carlos Williams as one of the major American modernists." Williams helped to define the spirit of America ...

An early poem by William Carlos ... the one that includes the life of Emily Dickinson Wellcome has more interruptions, twists, and enigmas than clear symmetries. Williams' almost impatient tone ...

the shining fauna of that fire. Born in Rutherford, N.J., in 1883, William Carlos Williams was as a revolutionary figure in American poetry, an experimenter, an innovator and one of the principal ...

William Carlos ... was on the line. Williams, by then 71 years old, was a local doctor credited with delivering more than 3,000 babies. On the side, he'd managed to become one of the 20th ...

NEW: Rafael Campo is a poet who, like William Carlos Williams, is also a practicing ... suspended from a mobile in a mild breeze. Each line has one metrical stress, but just where that stress ...

Thaddeus Marshall, at right in an undated photograph, is likely the owner of the wheelbarrow in William Carlos Williams's poem "The Red Wheelbarrow ... was a fisherman.) One of America's foremost ...

When Marion Macy was growing up in Rutherford, N.J., her doctor, William Carlos ... Williams wrote short stories, plays and essays, as well as poetry, and mentored many young poets. One of his ...

A new biography shortchanges the poetic achievement of William Carlos ... one-line sentences—“the wall lived for me in that picture/I clung to it as a fly”—sentences in which the poet ...